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WOMAN'S CLUB ORGANIZED

It Became a Reality Yesterday
With Seventy-Six Charter
Members.

Something About Its Scope and Principles
The Officers Elected-What It Proposes
to do.

The Woman's club became a reality yesterday,
and now stands witha membership
of seventy six and a corps of provisional
officers. The vlub stands espoused
to the general principles designated in the
report of the committee on plans, which
was printed in yesterday's World Herald.
At least 100 women were in
attendance, and the discussion of the work
that a club might do and of the duties
which it might assume was remarkably
unrestrained and general. The business
was transacted with a dispatch that might
only have been expected from persons
experienced in such work, and the gathering
of women was exceedingly democratic,
including professional women, society
women, working women, women with some
celebration as students and women who
might be considered purely domestic. The
first effot of the club will be to promote a
general good fellowship it is felt that
after that is accomplished a reasonable
development in soy and many directions
will be forgone conclusion. The club
year will be from the third week in
September to the first week in June, and
therefore the officers eleted yesterday are
intended only to fill on the brief remainder
of this year. Of these, Harriet C. T
owne is president, Mary Harris the secretary
and Irene Neely the Treasurer. The
membership is as follows.

Harriet C. Towne,
Agnes Sonners,
Sue P. Blackburn,
Elia W. Peattie,
May L. Copeland,
Miss Bruin,
Mrs J R. Nicholas,
Mrs. Frank Irvine,
Ida M Street,
Mrs. George A Calderm
Mrs. F G Patrick,
Edna Forbes
Lillian Woolson,
Anna N Mclague,
Clara C Rustbrook,
Abbie E Van Court,
Mrs B F Burbank,
Miss E A Rowe,
Mrs M F Sullivan,
Annah M Herring,
Irene Neely,
Jennie E Raysor,
Mrs. Clark Woodman
Mary M Lafferty
Mrs C W Van Tuvi
Mrs. Charles Gardner,
Mrs. Alber Billings,
Mrs L. D Baker,
Mrs J A Griffith,
Alice M Walemeyer,
Mrs A C. Troup,
Ida E. Edison,
Fasncy M Potter,
Mary Gifford,
Feorgia Valuntine,
Anna L G Howell,
Anna L Gardner,
Mrs. J. H Troute,
R. H Walker,
Ida Fleming,
Miriam Ford, Gertrude Pusadon,
Eleanor S Daily, M.D.
Anna L P Duryes,
Mary Alter
Mrs G W Ambroso,
Helen A Lewis,
Harriet D Hay,
Margaret E Beson,
R W Wilson,
Mary R Mount,
Mrs C F Catiln,
Lucula C Martin,
Ida C Benedict,
MRs. C H Baster,
Mrs F L Haller,
Mrs C F Byrne
Mrs Marietta Powell,
Eva M Ribbel,
Marry Harris,
Mrs E M Covelt
Mrs J S Stuart,
Adelaide A Cross,
Mrs Clinton Powell,
Mrs E G McFitan,
Mrs G A Tilson,
Mary Harard Andrews,
Mrs. John S Bridge,
Harriet S MacMurphym
Wegia H H Tracy
Carrie Millard,
May K Sanford,
Augusta H Henderson,
Mary N Thompson,
Mrs G W Clark,
Miss C Tonnant Clary
Freeda M Lanaton, M.D

A committee to prepare a constitution
was appointed, consiting of Mrs. Hanchett,
Mrs Frances Ford, Mrss McCague,
Mrs. Martin, Mrs Van Tuyle.

This committee will report at the next
meeting of the club, which will be Monday,
April 24, at the Young Men's Christian
Association building. After the adoption
of a constitution and possibly the arrangement
of some of the sections for study a
paper will be read by Elia W. Peattie on
the work of hte Chicago Woman's club.
The dues of the club will be so small that
no woman will feel herself excluded, and
they will be determined by the expenses
which will be incurred. Information as to
what these expenses will be can be given
by the tins of the next metting All
women joining the club before June 1,
1893, will be considered charter members
and no fee will be required from them beyond
the yearly dues. The first work of
the club must of necessity be literary and
social, but more serious and unselfish work
than can be developed by wither of these
pursuits is contemplated, and the co-operation
of all owmen is sympathy with the
club is cordially solicited.